frustrated
/ˈfɹʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd/adjective, verb
frustrated is spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is fustrated: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Frustrated is an adjective meaning “Foiled, stopped, disappointed”.
How many letters and syllables are in frustrated?
| Letters | 10: F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fustrated, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell frustrated?
Frustrated is spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for frustrated in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is frustrated?
Frustrated appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce frustrated?
- UK /fɹʌˈstɹeɪ.tɪd/
- US /ˈfɹʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd/
- US /ˈfʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd/
Frustrated has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frustrated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frustrated
- more frustrated comparative
- most frustrated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does frustrated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Foiled, stopped, disappointed.
- 2
Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, discontent and/or slightly angry because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire, or something happened or someone else did something in a way one did not hope for, expect, or desire.
She easily gets frustrated when it comes to financial matters.
- 3
Imperfect form of execution of a crime in that, despite performing all the acts that should produce it, the crime fails to be consummated.
A frustrated robbery may financially cripple the company or lead it to recover; a frustrated homicide or murder leaves the victim injured or wounded, not killed.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of frustrate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Frustrated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense foiled, stopped, disappointed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | frustriert |
| Spanish | frustrado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.